Its been coming for a long time, the slow painful death of IE6. As the web continues to grow and change it becomes necessary to retire those old dinosaurs who have become more of a pain to use than a benefit. As a developer its a tiring process to make sure your pages run on every browser, but if everyone just dropped support for it we could get rid of this pesky browser for good.

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Here is a brief interview with Alice Marwick, PHD candidate at NYU. She’s studying the concept of being “Internet famous” – that is, widely known among an elite Web 2.0 crowd, but mostly unknown outside of that world. To me this is the central idea behind being a “Zero to Hero” but what does kind of applications does this have for the real world.